William McArthur, real estate dealer, Meadville, was born in this city, October 19, 1815, and is a son of William and Rebecca McClean McArthur. His father was born in Ireland, and came to America about the close of the Revolutionary war, taught school in York County, and studied surveying with the McCleans, and when Pennsylvania lands came into market he came in 1794 to Meadville, and laid out the town for Gen. Meade.

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Engraving from the Centennial edition of the Daily Tribune-Republican 1888.